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Text Message Kills Policeman
News PC Darren Riley was driving to work in heavy rain when the message arrived. An inquest today heard that a policeman died in a car crash after reading a text message on his mobile phone. He didn't have a hands free set, and had to press ten buttons...
[August 24, 2000, 16:24]
Net Paedophile Investigation Breaks New Ground
News Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint about an Internet paedophile. A British police officer has become the first to covertly catch an Internet paedophile using...
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
Smarts Moves On ATM, Frame And Security
News This is not a new message," said Darren Prince, technical director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, at Smarts, speaking of the promise that the application services module will provide business-level information.
[June 5, 2002, 10:06]
Exclusive: BTopenworld 'unuseable'
News Everybody has had intermittent problems from day one, but we could live with it," broadband user Darren Collins told ZDNet UK. BTopenworld's high-speed Internet service has been virtually unuseable for the last week according to users, adding to...
[February 13, 2001, 16:14]
Smarts Absorbs Rivals' Management Data
News The struggle is taking place in the "service assurance" sector of the network management market, sometimes called "fault management", a sector which has become strategic to vendors and users, said Darren Prince, technical director of EMEA...
[February 1, 2002, 17:42]
Spies Hit Disney? No, Just Melissa
News There is a danger that any type of virus that sends out email, especially macro viruses, could do something like this," said Darren Kessner, a senior virus researcher at Symantec Corp.s Anti-virus Research Center.
[November 18, 1999, 14:24]
AOL Time Warner Could Tap Music, Video Wealth
News Consumers are going to see AOL Time Warner everywhere," said Darren Chervitz, senior analyst at the Jacob Internet Fund, adding that the company will be a "giant presence in everyone's lives, whether it's on TV or over the Internet.
[January 12, 2001, 10:25]
Symantec Develops Risk-management Dashboard
News Absolutely," said Darren Thomson, Symantec's senior director of IT risk management. Security vendor Symantec is in the process of building a "risk-management dashboard". The risk-management dashboard was customer driven," said Enrique Salem...
[June 22, 2007, 10:21]
High And Confusing Prices 'hampering' Wi-Fi Take-up
Talkback Darren Russell I have over the last week or two taken a very close look at the Wi-Fi market, and have come to the dissection that this product should be used as a complementary service. A value added service if you will, with no charge to the end...
[February 17, 2004, 10:45]
Partners Frustrated By Microsoft Launch Delays
News Improved server security features, reduced costs of operation and the addition of Hyper-V to deliver virtualisation on the server will be the main drivers for Windows Server 2008 adoption," according to Darren Brown, data-centre lead at Avanade UK.
[February 27, 2008, 12:29]
ECTS: Dreamcast Delay Is No Big Deal - Sega
News National accounts manager for Sega Europe, Darren Houghton seemed unconcerned at the delay. A Sega representative at the ECTS show described the delay of the Dreamcast as no big deal Monday, a day after the machine was announced in London.
[September 6, 1999, 13:38]
Office 12 To Support PDF Creation
News Darren Strange, Microsoft's UK Office 12 product manager, told ZDNet UK: "The users are looking for a simple way to exchange information in an open way they understand. Microsoft announced on Sunday that Office 12 would support saving documents in...
[October 3, 2005, 15:15]
Microsoft Attacks IBM Over ODF
News Darren Strange, senior product manager for Microsoft Office 2007, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday: "The difference in view is that [IBM] are espousing 'one standard fits all', which is hard for us. Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the...
[May 10, 2007, 16:23]
Ex-Novell Engineer Files Sexual Harassment Claim
News That dispute involves Timpanogas and its two other founding employees, including a former Novell colleague, Darren Major. Jeff Merkey, now the chief executive of the Timpanogas Research Group, brought the charges against Novell and Denice Gibson...
[July 16, 1997, 9:49]
DDoS Attack Shuts Down Anti-spam Blacklist
News Managing director of Australian broadband provider Ideal Internet Services, Darren Worley, doesn't use blacklists as a general rule. Osirusoft, one of the largest anti-spam blacklists, has been shut down by its operator following a barrage of...
[August 27, 2003, 11:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He's even got a rawk-n-roll name, Darren 'Strangely' Strange, and from hints we gather during the presentation he may also go by the name Office Rocker (geddit? Friday 15/9/2006 It's early. It's Friday morning.
[September 15, 2006, 18:55]
Commodore 64 Brand Gets New Guardian Angel
News Darren Melbourne, creative director at Ironstone Partners, admits that a subscription-based portal is on the cards, but he is keen to convey to the C64 community that Ironstone is not their enemy. Ironstone -- the company that has licensed the...
[July 15, 2003, 10:37]
Passport Switch Shuts Out Users
News Darren Gasser, a software developer and regular "Asheron's Call" player, said he had no problem creating a Passport account on Tuesday. Online game players using Microsoft's Zone site complained of persistent problems accessing the service on...
[December 12, 2001, 13:45]
Linux Won't Run On Pentium 4
News Darren Davis, Caldera's vice president of engineering, said Caldera made a conscious decision not to add Pentium 4 support to its currently shipping eServer 2.3 and eDesktop 2.4 products. A number of the pre-packaged versions of the open source...
[December 12, 2000, 8:26]
Microsoft Licences Too Expensive, Say Schools
News Darren Smith, network manager at Mayfield School, Portsmouth, feels similarly: "The schools agreement is cheaper for us [compared with buying individual upgrades], but it's still overpriced," he said "We're teaching the kids to use Microsoft...
[January 13, 2006, 15:30]
